ECO Schools Litter Less Campaign

Jameah Academy took part in the Wrigley Litter Less Campaign this year. This saw the school embark on 6 litter picks. The primary years were the leading group for this project. Over the course of six litter picks the Year 3, 4 and 5 managed to collect a total of 28.469kg of litter within 100m of the school gates. This is a mass amount of litter that the school is seeing in a small area. The students in this group took it upon themselves to write persuasive letters to our local councillors requesting for bins to be placed in the area. They have also planned to set up a regular litter picking group which will go out in the community to pick up litter. This campaign helped the primary students to follow the seven steps of Eco-schools. For this project, the Year 3 - 5 groups were selected by the Eco-committee to conduct this project. The Year 3 and 4 students went outside the school gates and conducted a local habitat survey of environmental dangers. They noticed excessive littering around school. The Year 5s completed an environmental review of the amount and types of litter they could see. They then came back and formulated an action plan on how they were going to combat this problem.